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Revelstoke: History and Heritage
Ruby M. Nobbs. Revelstoke: Revelstoke Museum and Archives, 1998. 303 pp. Illus. $30 hardcover. Available from Revelstoke Museum, Box 1908, Revelstoke, BC VOE 2SO REVIEWED BY EDWARD L. AFFLECK.
Ruby (Rutherford) Nobbs was born in Revelstoke on 20 March 1907 and died there on 4 April 2001. Save for the years spent at Victoria Normal School and in teaching at a one-room school down the Columbia River, she lived her entire life in Revelstoke, where she and her husband operated a trucking business and a bowling alley. In retirement she became a zealous worker in the cause of Revelstoke's heritage and began to publish historical articles in the local weekly newspaper. By the time she began the compilation of Revelstoke: History and Heritage her eyesight was failing. The final portions of the work had to be dictated to an amanuensis, as a blind Ruby...